Well that was an interesting day. Sydney to Dubia to Warsaw. Little over flying at the moment after 24 hours flying but can recommend Emirates and the Airbus 380. Plenty of room, smooth, nice food and no dramas or delays and all the gear got here without damage and we had alot of gear. Most of us were in our team shirts which created quite a few queries about where we were going etc.
Then the real adventure started.
Pick up the vans near the airport which had the steering wheel on the the wrong of the car and manual then back to the airport to pickup everyone and the gear, roundabouts are still a bit wierd. Then regrouped at the local Maccas, freee wifi is good.
Then the group got splilt due to a misunderstanding when we left and it was just me and Rex in one van and Brendan and Mick in another van. Major GPS issues which had us trying the a freeway that is not finished yet which involved a return to the same Maccas to go where to know. More on the unfinished freeway later. Ignored the GPS for a while and then it got us onto the best road I have probably ever seen. Cruised most of the way to Wloclawek with speedo around the 140kph mark which is the local freeway speed limit.
Got to the hotel with no problem. Quite nice but a bit hot as they seem to think it sould be the same temprature as a shoping mall. Did a shopping trip last night which was a bit ofn fun and then had dinner at the hotel follwed by sleep.
Tommorow, will be interesting as our batteries are still stuck in Customs in Warsaw but that will hopefully be here tommorow.
Made it! How was right hand gear change on top of wheel on the wrong side?
Navigation couldn’t have been worse than trying to find things on the event webs! If it’s too hot…come home and fix it!
Gearchange is OK apart from I rarely drive a manual these days. Windscreen get a wipe often as the stalks for them and the blinkers are opposite. Roundabouts and left turns at multi lane roads are just plain wrong but getting used to it. The event site is less than good. Took us a couple of hours last night to find the practice fields as the map and gps coordinates did not match to well.